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Methamphetamine

Sue Dempsey, MS

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METHAMPHETAMINE

History

Manufacturing

Nebraska’s Regulations

Meth & Your Health

Identification & Hazards

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History

 Late 1950s - early 1960s – It’s harder for the medical community to ignore a growing number of individuals hooked on Benzedrine and Dexedrine, “amphetamines”.

 1960s -1970s - Amphetamine, “speed” or “uppers”, used by athletes, college students, and truck drivers.

 1980 Crystal Meth - West Coast motorcycle gangs discover ephedrine, in over-the-counter cold remedies, produces methamphetamine “crystal meth” with twice the potency.

 Methamphetamine is amphetamine with a methyl group. It's like a high-octane gasoline versus a low- octane gasoline.

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History

 1980s - Enter the Cartels , Jesus and Luis Amezcua (Mexican cocaine traffickers) become top meth dealers.

 Home meth labs also begin spreading throughout the West Coast.

 1986 The DEA authors legislation requiring chemical companies to keep sales and import records for diet pills & cold medicines containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine.

 Late 1980s - The pharmaceutical industry mounts a strong lobby against the proposed regulation.

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History

 1988 – New law exempts pills from regulation but importers of raw powders will have to keep records of purchases and sales.

 Early 1990s - Meth Explodes (literally & figuratively). Meth cooks switch to using unregulated pills.

 1990s Super Labs - Mexican cartels begins buying bulk ephedrine powder from factories overseas.

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History

 Congress passed the Combat

Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005.

 The law mandates that pseudoephedrine is

sold behind the counter and buyers must sign

a registry.

 2005 – Mexico, only licensed pharmacies with

full-time pharmacists can sell medicines

containing pseudoephedrine, reducing retail

outlets selling the drug from 51,000 to 17,000.

 2006, The U.N. World Drug Report calls meth

“ the most abused hard drug on earth, ” with

26 million meth addicts, the combined

number for cocaine and heroin users.

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Cooking Methods

Birch or “Nazi” Method – High quality, low quantity (ounces) of d- methamphetamine.

Birch. E or P, anhydrous ammonia, and sodium (Red Devil drain cleaner) or lithium metal. The method typically used in smaller labs.

Phenyl-2-propanone “P2P” - This method yields lower quality dl - methamphetamine and traditionally was associated with outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs) but is one of the primary methods used in Mexico.

P2P. Phenyl-2-propanone, aluminum, methylamine, and mercuric acid.

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Cooking Methods

Nitrostyrene Method or the “New P2P” Method

• 2014, benzaldehyde and nitroethane as key precursors and nitrostyrene is

produced in the Rx.

• The nitrostyrene intermediate is then converted into P2P using a second chemical

reaction.

• The primary method of production for samples seized at the U.S.-Mexico border

and also in the interior of the country.

• The new P2P category (nitrostyrene-based) is now in the

majority of methamphetamine made using P2P.

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